ES Modules: suggestions for improvement

[Wes Garland]

On 26 June 2012 16:45, Kevin Smith <khs4473 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Isaac,
>
> I share some of your concerns as well.  I like the idea of "import" just
> returning an object, which can be destructured using let.  I also like the
> idea of eliminating the "import *" syntax.  However, I think that dynamic
> exports ("export <expression>") might not be as useful as it seems.
>
> In my modules, I use the "export <expression>" form for the following
> reasons:
>
> 1.  When I want to export a single function (perhaps a constructor), and I
> don't want importers to unnecessarily repeat the function name:
>
>     var MyClass = require("MyClass").MyClass; // Boo!
>     var MyClass = require("MyClass"); // Better!
>

var { MyClass } = require("MyClass");  // Best!

Best of both worlds!   My code is full of this.

Wes

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